The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE Spanish Government has declined to
accept the resignation Of the Governor
General of Cuba.
DR.. MoRGESsTEIS. the eminent Hebrew
scholar, drowned himself recently in the
Danube. Since he implicated DR.. Stoecker
in the anti-Semitic persecution at Berlin he
had been unable to gain employment and
was reduced to penury.
THE Chicago municipal election went de-
cidedly against the United Labor party, the
Republican ticket being elected by $4,000
majority.
LATER returns from Michigan indicated
the defeat Of the Prohibition amendment by
$500.
THE Kansas City. Mo-, election Of the 5th
weat Republican. Kumpf, Republican, for
mayor, received 6, 429; Worthen, Democrat,
8, 124: Welsh, Labor, 1,925.
Nicely, Democrat-Labor, carried Leaven-
worth, Kan, against Garrigues, Repub-
licau-Prohibition, on the 5th. The election
was protested by the friends of the latter.
THE complete count for mayor of Cincin-
natl showed: Smith, Republican, 1883;
Matson, Democrat, 1881; Stevenson, La
Dor, 1885,; Smiths plurality, 500
Hon D. WYATT AIKEN, late Representa-
tive in Congress from the Third South Caro-
lima district, died at his home in COkes-
bury, s. c., on the 9th, aged ffty-nine. He
had been i'll for long time.
HoN. HOWARD Cross, Judge of the Fed
eral Court for the district of Arkansas from
1882 to 1898, and member of the Twenty
sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth
Congresses from Arkansas, died at Little
Rock on the 9th, aged eighty-nine years.
AS NEAR as could be ascertained on the
9th the Rhode Island House stands q Re-
publicans and 90 Democrats, and the Sen
ate Is Republicans and 10 Democrats, with
four cities or towns to be heard from.
MILWAUKEE on the 5th gave a majority
for the Labor candidates, but the towns
polled a Fusion vote that overtopped the
Labor vote in the city and elected the
Fusion judicial candidates by majority of
nearly 1900
IT was reported that Thoebe, the Labor
candidate, had failed to make case against
the election Of Speaker Carlisle in Ken
lucky and had abandoned the contest.
SENIOR CORRAL, the Bolivian Minister to
the United States, has been recalled at his
own request.
Mr.. THoEBE, Of Covington, KY, Speaker
Carlisle's opponent in the Congressional
contest, declares that he has not abandoned
the fight.
THE President, in a letter to the Ameri-
can Fisheries Union, dated April Z, stated
that he was impressed with the magnitude
of the interests involved by the Retalia-
tory law, and while he would enforce the act
to maintain American dignity, if occasion
should call for it. he hoped that no citizen
would so act as to place the country in a
false position.
A TELEGRAM from Fort Gibson, J. T., of
the Sth, reported Mr.. Blaine as suffering
from bronchial catarrh. No grave symp-
toms were apparent.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission has
appointed E. L. Pugh, of Alabama, to a
clerkship. He is a son of Senator Pugh.
This is the first appointment made by the
commission.
THE President has recognized W. j. II.
Taylor as British Vice Consul at Key West,
Fla: Robert M. Kuerze, Consul of the
Swiss Confederation, at Cincinnati, for the
States of Ohio and Indiana; Slegfried
Fischer, Consul of the Swiss Confederation
at Louisville, KY, and Charles j. Karrar,
Vice Consul of the Swiss Confederation at
Cincinnati.
THE Pope has forwarded to France pro-
posals for the re-establishment of diplomat
ic relations